How To List Files Within tgz (tar.gz) Archives
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 26th, 2008 in Linux
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This may not be very obvious but this is the command line to list files within a tar.gz archive on the fly:
1 | tar -tzf file.tar.gz |
-t: lists files
-f: instructs tar to deal with the following filename (file.tar.gz)
-z: informs tar that the it's dealing with a gzip file (-j if it's bzip2)
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thanks !!!!
How can I list the contents of multiple archives within a folder? Have tried;
for i in *; do if [ -d "$i" ]; then tar tzvf "$i".tar.gz "$i" >> tar.gz-list.txt; fi; done
but this does not work.
Any suggestions?
This is how I would do it:
find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzf {} \; > list.txtJust tried it and it works fine (adjust it for your own extention – I used tgz).
Artem Russakovskii says:
November 5, 2010 at 10:05 am
This is how I would do it:
find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzf {} \; > list.txt
Thanks Artem, I'll give it a go and them try to understand the code layout.
The code you supplied worked, thanks. If I wanted the text to appear in the terminal window as well as being piped to a text file should I add a verbose flag to the tar command? For example;
find . -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzvf {} \; > list.txt
No, that won't work – look up the usage of 'tee'
Very helpful, thank you!